{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,4]],"date-time":"2026-10-04T23:33:36Z","timestamp":1791156816976,"version":"4.1.0"},"reference-count":67,"publisher":"Public Library of Science (PLoS)","issue":"12","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,7]],"date-time":"2012-12-07T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1354838400000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["www.plosone.org"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["PLoS ONE"],"DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0051446","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,7]],"date-time":"2012-12-07T23:14:00Z","timestamp":1354922040000},"page":"e51446","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":208,"title":["Effect of Body Mass Index on Breast Cancer during Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Periods: A Meta-Analysis"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Zahra","family":"Cheraghi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jalal","family":"Poorolajal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tahereh","family":"Hashem","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nader","family":"Esmailnasab","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amin","family":"Doosti Irani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","unstructured":"World Health Organization (2012) Breast cancer: prevention and control. WHO."},{"key":"ref2","unstructured":"World Health Organization (2006) Guidelines for management of breast cancer. Nasr: EMRO Technical Publications Series."},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"590","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.2012.84","article-title":"Association between age at diagnosis and disease-specific mortality among postmenopausal women withHormone receptor\u2013positive breast cancer","volume":"307","author":"W van de Water","year":"2012","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1093\/jnci\/djj331","article-title":"Prospective breast cancer risk prediction model for women undergoing screening mammography","volume":"98","author":"WE Barlow","year":"2006","journal-title":"J Natl Cancer Inst"},{"key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1026","DOI":"10.1093\/ije\/28.6.1026","article-title":"Body fat distribution and obesity in pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer","volume":"28","author":"E Sonnenschein","year":"1999","journal-title":"Int J Epidemiol"},{"key":"ref6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"156","DOI":"10.1038\/sj.ijo.0803133","article-title":"Several anthropometric measurements and breast cancer risk: results of the E3N cohort study","volume":"30","author":"B Tehard","year":"2006","journal-title":"International Journal of Obesity"},{"key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"669","DOI":"10.1677\/ERC-06-0089","article-title":"Anthropometric measures, plasma adiponectin, and breast cancer risk","volume":"14","author":"YF Tian","year":"2007","journal-title":"Endocr Relat Cancer"},{"key":"ref8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"207","DOI":"10.1038\/sj.bjc.6604423","article-title":"Anthropometric factors and breast cancer risk among urban and rural women in South India: a multicentric case-control study","volume":"99","author":"A Mathew","year":"2008","journal-title":"Br J Cancer"},{"key":"ref9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"278","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2407-8-278","article-title":"Weight, height, body mass index and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women: a case-control study","volume":"8","author":"A Montazeri","year":"2008","journal-title":"Bmc Cancer"},{"key":"ref10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1795","DOI":"10.1158\/1055-9965.EPI-07-0336","article-title":"A prospective study of body size and breast cancer in black women","volume":"16","author":"JR Palmer","year":"2007","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prev"},{"key":"ref11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1686","DOI":"10.1158\/1055-9965.EPI-05-0042","article-title":"Obesity and outcomes in premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer","volume":"14","author":"S Loi","year":"2005","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev"},{"key":"ref12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"610","DOI":"10.3346\/jkms.2001.16.5.610","article-title":"Is body mass index the prognostic factor in breast cancer? : a meta-analysis","volume":"16","author":"SY Ryu","year":"2001","journal-title":"J Korean Med Sci"},{"key":"ref13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"698","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.23943","article-title":"Body weight and incidence of breast cancer defined by estrogen and progesterone receptor status-a meta-analysis","volume":"124","author":"R Suzuki","year":"2009","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"ref14","unstructured":"World Health Organization (2012) 10 facts on obesity. WHO."},{"key":"ref15","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1628","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pmed.0040297","article-title":"Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE): explanation andelaboration","volume":"4","author":"JP Vandenbroucke","year":"2007","journal-title":"PLoS Med"},{"key":"ref16","unstructured":"Gordis L (2008) Epidemiology. Philadelphia: Saunders."},{"key":"ref17","unstructured":"RevMan (2008) Review Manager (RevMan) [Computer program]. RevMan. Version 5.0 for Windows. Copenhagen: The Nordic Cochrane Centre, The Cochrane Collaboration."},{"key":"ref18","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"177","DOI":"10.1016\/0197-2456(86)90046-2","article-title":"Meta-analysis in clinical trials","volume":"7","author":"R DerSimonian","year":"1986","journal-title":"Control Clin Trials"},{"key":"ref19","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"557","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.327.7414.557","article-title":"Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses","volume":"327","author":"JPT Higgins","year":"2003","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"key":"ref20","article-title":"Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions Version 5.0.0 [updated February 2008]","author":"JPT Higgins","year":"2008","journal-title":"The Cochrane Collaboration"},{"key":"ref21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1088","DOI":"10.2307\/2533446","article-title":"Operating characteristics of a rank correlation test for publication bias","volume":"50","author":"CB Begg","year":"1994","journal-title":"Biometrics"},{"key":"ref22","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"629","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.315.7109.629","article-title":"Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test","volume":"315","author":"M Egger","year":"1997","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"key":"ref23","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3150","DOI":"10.1158\/1055-9965.EPI-08-0435","article-title":"Menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk in the NIH-AARP diet and health study cohort","volume":"17","author":"LA Brinton","year":"2008","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers & Prev"},{"key":"ref24","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1407","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.1997.03550170037029","article-title":"Dual effects of weight and weight gain on breast cancer risk","volume":"278","author":"ZP Huang","year":"1997","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"key":"ref25","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"647","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-0215(19980529)76:5<647::AID-IJC6>3.0.CO;2-Q","article-title":"Breast-cancer incidence in relation to height, weight and body-fat distribution in the dutch \u201cDOM\u201d cohort","volume":"76","author":"R Kaaks","year":"1998","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"ref26","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1724","DOI":"10.1093\/jnci\/djn388","article-title":"Obesity, mammography use and accuracy, and advanced breast cancer risk","volume":"100","author":"K Kerlikowske","year":"2008","journal-title":"J Natl Cancer Inst"},{"key":"ref27","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1285","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.21481","article-title":"Postmenopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: the multiethnic cohort","volume":"118","author":"S Lee","year":"2006","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"ref28","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2395","DOI":"10.1001\/archinte.166.21.2395","article-title":"Longitudinal study on the role of body size in premenopausal breast cancer","volume":"166","author":"KB Michels","year":"2006","journal-title":"Arch Intern Med"},{"key":"ref29","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"225","DOI":"10.1093\/aje\/155.3.225","article-title":"Interaction of waist\/hip ratio and family history on the risk of hormone receptor-defined breast cancer in a prospective study of postmenopausal women","volume":"155","author":"TA Sellers","year":"2002","journal-title":"Am J Epidemiol"},{"key":"ref30","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1251","DOI":"10.1093\/aje\/kwp036","article-title":"Breast cancer risk factors defined by estrogen and progesterone receptor status","volume":"169","author":"VW Setiawan","year":"2009","journal-title":"Am J Epidemiol"},{"key":"ref31","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1683","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.22034","article-title":"Body weight and postmenopausal breast cancer risk defined by estrogen and progesterone receptor status among Swedish women: a prospective cohort study","volume":"119","author":"R Suzuki","year":"2006","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"ref32","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1121","DOI":"10.1158\/1055-9965.1121.13.7","article-title":"A prospective study of body size in different periods of life and risk of premenopausal breast cancer","volume":"13","author":"E Weiderpass","year":"2004","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev"},{"key":"ref33","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R18","DOI":"10.1186\/bcr567","article-title":"Waist-hip ratio and breast cancer risk in urbanized Nigerian women","volume":"5","author":"CA Adebamowo","year":"2003","journal-title":"Breast Cancer Res"},{"key":"ref34","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1532","DOI":"10.1158\/1055-9965.EPI-10-0025","article-title":"A case-control study of body mass index and breast cancer risk in white and african-american women","volume":"19","author":"P Berstad","year":"2010","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev"},{"key":"ref35","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"167","DOI":"10.1038\/sj.bjc.6690667","article-title":"Risk of breast cancer in young women in relation to body size and weight gain in adolescence and early adulthood","volume":"81","author":"RJ Coates","year":"1999","journal-title":"Br J Cancer"},{"key":"ref36","first-page":"681","article-title":"Body size, physical activity, and breast cancer hormone receptor status: Results from two case-control studies","volume":"9","author":"SM Enger","year":"2000","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev"},{"key":"ref37","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"445","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.10389","article-title":"Case-control study of anthropometric measures and breast cancer risk","volume":"99","author":"CM Friedenreich","year":"2002","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"ref38","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"754","DOI":"10.1093\/oxfordjournals.aje.a010275","article-title":"Body size and breast cancer risk in black women and white women: The Carolina breast cancer study","volume":"151","author":"IJ Hall","year":"2000","journal-title":"Am J Epidemiol"},{"key":"ref39","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"276","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.11373","article-title":"Dietary factors protective against breast cancer in Japanese premenopausal and postmenopausal women","volume":"107","author":"K Hirose","year":"2003","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"ref40","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"65","DOI":"10.1023\/A:1005745824388","article-title":"Association of body mass index, physical activity, and reproductive histories with breast cancer: a case-control study in Gifu, Japan","volume":"43","author":"YH Hu","year":"1997","journal-title":"Breast Cancer Res Treat"},{"key":"ref41","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"201","DOI":"10.1093\/aje\/kwq345","article-title":"Adult body size, hormone receptor status, and premenopausal breast cancer risk in a multiethnic population: the San Francisco Bay Area breast cancer study","volume":"173","author":"EM John","year":"2010","journal-title":"Am J Epidemiol"},{"key":"ref42","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"299","DOI":"10.1016\/j.breast.2009.09.004","article-title":"Breast cancer in the thai cohort study: An exploratory case-control analysis","volume":"18","author":"S Jordan","year":"2009","journal-title":"The Breast"},{"key":"ref43","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"508","DOI":"10.1158\/1055-9965.EPI-08-0133","article-title":"Serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and breast cancer risk by menopausal status, body mass index, and hormonal receptor in korea","volume":"18","author":"Y Kim","year":"2009","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev"},{"key":"ref44","first-page":"513","article-title":"Association of lifestyle and other risk factors with breast cancer according to menopausal status: a case-control study in the region of western pomerania (Poland)","volume":"8","author":"J Kruk","year":"2007","journal-title":"Asian Pac J Cancer Prev"},{"key":"ref45","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"187","DOI":"10.1016\/S0361-090X(03)00032-1","article-title":"Occupational physical activity and the risk of breast cancer","volume":"27","author":"J Kruk","year":"2003","journal-title":"Cancer Detect Prev"},{"key":"ref46","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"441","DOI":"10.1038\/bjc.1997.73","article-title":"Body mass index and post-menopausal breast cancer: an age-specific analysis","volume":"75","author":"C La Vecchia","year":"1997","journal-title":"Br J Cancer"},{"key":"ref47","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"695","DOI":"10.1007\/s10552-005-0001-7","article-title":"Interactions between body mass index and hormone therapy and postmenopausal breast cancer risk (United States)","volume":"17","author":"CI Li","year":"2006","journal-title":"Cancer Causes Control"},{"key":"ref48","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"208","DOI":"10.1093\/ije\/29.2.208","article-title":"Anthropometric variables in relation to risk of breast cancer in middle-aged women","volume":"29","author":"CI Li","year":"2000","journal-title":"Int J Epidemiol"},{"key":"ref49","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"29","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-0215(19980330)76:1<29::AID-IJC6>3.0.CO;2-#","article-title":"Body size in different periods of life and breast cancer risk in post-menopausal women","volume":"76","author":"C Magnusson","year":"1998","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"ref50","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"817","DOI":"10.1038\/sj.bjc.6602758","article-title":"Body fatness and physical activity at young ages and the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women","volume":"93","author":"CM Magnusson","year":"2005","journal-title":"Br J Cancer"},{"key":"ref51","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"189","DOI":"10.1023\/A:1008886328352","article-title":"Breast cancer in Australian women under the age of 40","volume":"9","author":"MRE McCredie","year":"1998","journal-title":"Cancer Causes Control"},{"key":"ref52","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"389","DOI":"10.1093\/jnci\/90.5.389","article-title":"Population attributable risk for breast cancer: diet, nutrition, and physical exercise","volume":"90","author":"M Mezzetti","year":"1998","journal-title":"J Natl Cancer Inst"},{"key":"ref53","article-title":"Metabolic syndrome and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women","author":"V Rosato","year":"2011","journal-title":"Ann Oncol"},{"key":"ref54","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2572","DOI":"10.1158\/1055-9965.EPI-11-0848","article-title":"Early-Life factors and breast cancer risk in hispanic women: the role of adolescent body size","volume":"20","author":"M Sangaramoorthy","year":"2011","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev"},{"key":"ref55","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"153","DOI":"10.1007\/s10549-008-9903-x","article-title":"Joint effects of body size, energy intake, and physical activity on breast cancer risk","volume":"113","author":"A Shin","year":"2009","journal-title":"Breast Cancer Res Treat"},{"key":"ref56","first-page":"591","article-title":"Early-life physical activity and postmenopausal breast cancer: Effect of body size and weight change","volume":"9","author":"SM Shoff","year":"2000","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev"},{"key":"ref57","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"449","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.1487","article-title":"Association of body size and fat distribution with risk of breast cancer among Chinese women","volume":"94","author":"XO Shu","year":"2001","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"ref58","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"669","DOI":"10.1677\/ERC-06-0089","article-title":"Anthropometric measures, plasma adiponectin, and breast cancer risk","volume":"14","author":"YF Tian","year":"2007","journal-title":"Endocr Relat Cancer"},{"key":"ref59","first-page":"783","article-title":"Menstrual factors in relation to breast cancer risk","volume":"7","author":"L Titus-Ernstoff","year":"1998","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev"},{"key":"ref60","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1011","DOI":"10.1093\/oxfordjournals.aje.a009057","article-title":"Body size and risk of breast cancer","volume":"145","author":"A Trentham-Dietz","year":"1997","journal-title":"Am J Epidemiol"},{"key":"ref61","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"137","DOI":"10.1093\/jjco\/29.3.137","article-title":"Risk factors for breast cancer in Japan, with special attention to anthropometric measurements and reproductive history","volume":"29","author":"HT Tung","year":"1999","journal-title":"Jpn J Clin Oncol"},{"key":"ref62","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"419","DOI":"10.1097\/00008469-200508000-00016","article-title":"Anthropometric factors and the risk of premenopausal breast cancer in Germany","volume":"14","author":"E Verla-Tebit","year":"2005","journal-title":"Eur J Cancer Prev"},{"key":"ref63","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R88","DOI":"10.1186\/bcr605","article-title":"Risk factors for breast cancer in a population with high incidence rates","volume":"5","author":"M Wrensch","year":"2003","journal-title":"Breast Cancer Res"},{"key":"ref64","first-page":"1791","article-title":"Association between body mass index and risk of formation of breast cancer in chinese women","volume":"28","author":"LWC Chow","year":"2005","journal-title":"Asian J Surg"},{"key":"ref65","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"345","DOI":"10.1016\/j.canep.2010.11.003","article-title":"Population attributable risk of invasive postmenopausal breast cancer and breast cancer subtypes for modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors","volume":"35","author":"BBE Barnes","year":"2011","journal-title":"Cancer Epidemiol"},{"key":"ref66","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"39","DOI":"10.1023\/A:1018479020716","article-title":"Height, weight, weight change, and postmenopausal breast cancer risk: the netherlands cohort study","volume":"8","author":"PA van den Brandt","year":"1997","journal-title":"Cancer Causes Control"},{"key":"ref67","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"84","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2407-9-84","article-title":"Breast cancer epidemiology according to recognized breast cancer risk factors in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial Cohort","volume":"9","author":"JV Lacey Jr","year":"2009","journal-title":"BMC Cancer"}],"container-title":["PLoS ONE"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0051446","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,27]],"date-time":"2023-06-27T12:38:53Z","timestamp":1687869533000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0051446"}},"subtitle":[],"editor":[{"given":"Raul M.","family":"Luque","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"editor"}]}],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,7]]},"references-count":67,"journal-issue":{"issue":"12","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,7]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0051446","relation":{},"ISSN":["1932-6203"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1932-6203","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,7]]}}}